__text_signature__ parser doesn't handle globals in extension module

[anntzer]

BPO	37881
Nosy	@ericsnowcurrently, @anntzer

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title = "__text_signature__ parser doesn't handle globals in extension module"
updated_at = <Date 2020-10-08.11:34:43.922>
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Linked PRs

• gh-82062: correctly set module for built-in instance methods in inspect.signature() #115270

[anntzer]

Starting from the custom2 example at https://docs.python.org/3/extending/newtypes_tutorial.html#adding-data-and-methods-to-the-basic-example, change the methods table to

static PyMethodDef Custom_methods[] = {
 {"foo", (PyCFunction) Custom_foo, METH_VARARGS,
 "foo(x=ONE)\n--\n\nFoos this."
 },
 {NULL} /* Sentinel */
};

and add a global ONE to the module dict:

 PyModule_AddObject(m, "ONE", PyLong_FromLong(1));

Building and running e.g. pydoc on this module results in

 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File ".../lib/python3.7/inspect.py", line 2003, in wrap_value
 value = eval(s, module_dict)
 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
 NameError: name 'ONE' is not defined

 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File ".../lib/python3.7/inspect.py", line 2006, in wrap_value
 value = eval(s, sys_module_dict)
 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
 NameError: name 'ONE' is not defined

 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File ".../lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
 "__main__", mod_spec)
 <elided>
 File ".../lib/python3.7/inspect.py", line 2008, in wrap_value
 raise RuntimeError()
 RuntimeError

I think the fix is fairly simple; one needs to replace

 module_name = getattr(obj, '__module__', None)

in inspect.py::_signature_fromstr by

 module_name = (getattr(obj, '__module__', None)
 or getattr(getattr(obj, '__objclass__'), '__module__', None))

(This is a less general but simpler solution than https://bugs.python.org/issue23967.)